From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.